Sydney City Bonsai Club

Sydney City Bonsai Club

Join us in learning the art of bonsai

Sydney City Bonsai Club

We meet the 2nd Tuesday of the month February through to December at 3 Joynton Avenue, Zetland.

Bonsai in Sydney's Heart

Welcome to the Sydney City Bonsai Club.
The club is an ideal way to increase your knowledge of bonsai and meet other bonsai enthusiasts located in the Sydney's inner city and eastern suburbs.
Our relaxed monthly meetings are a great
opportunity to bring in trees for display or advice, attend workshops and discuss styling and shaping or just chat about bonsai in a friendly environment.

In our October newsletter, Lee has provided an excellent article on the principles of good carving and how to get started. Follow the amazing transformation of her subject, an azalea, where one side of the trunk and branches had died and badly needed to be naturalized. An ability to carve realistically …

Shinichi-san was born in 1948. He is the second Nakajima generation of Bonsai Masters and operates his own bonsai nursery in Tokyo. He has travelled all around the world to share his bonsai knowledge as the official representative of the Nippon Bonsai Association. He is the former President of “The …

“There is a question that continually crops up in bonsai talks…. Can you bonsai Australian natives? The answer is a big, fat YES. Aussie natives make fantastic, rewarding bonsai as long as they are treated the way Aussie natives like to be treated”. Lee has been successfully growing Australian native …

The June SCBC newsletter features azalea bonsai expert, Brenda Parker. The word ‘rhododendron’, loosely translated means ‘rose tree. Azaleas, rhododendrons and vireyas (tropical types) are all classed and known under the one family name – rhododendrons, and botanically there is no difference between them. They originated in China, the …

At the Show this year there were around 50 trees presented for the RAS bonsai competition. Sydney City Bonsai Club featured strongly among the winners with Sue winning grand champion bonsai. Here are three of the winning trees. See our 2014 April Newsletter for detailed list of SCBC …

Thanks to Vice-President Sue’s organisation and effort, the Sydney City Bonsai stand at the RAS was a great success. Each day SCBC club volunteers and some volunteers from the Bonsai Society of Australia ensured that members of the public showing an interest in bonsai could stop, look, have a chat …